Vibinc writes this morning about patience, defining and recognizing the existing process of getting to a goal and that, as the Stones sang, we can’t always get what we want. But he expands on it quite effectively of trying to get what we want.
Or, if you KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY WANT, you can educate yourself about the issues and the process, insert yourself into that process, focus your attention on the path most likely to get you where you want to be, and slowly, and patiently build consensus around this idea until it gradually and deliberately becomes the change you wanted in the first place.
This means you don’t just hurl your marble forward and pray you don’t run into any obstacles, but you deliberately direct your marble through the maze of the process an inch at a time, knowing that the path will take you both forward and backwards, left and right, all the while grounding yourself in that ultimate goal. By doing this, keeping your perspective, and most of all, exercising patience, you WILL get to that goal eventually, despite the setbacks, obstacles, trials and tribulations that come with anything in this world that is worth a damn.
You’ve got to stay focused, and that’s hard. You’ve got to be patient, and that’s hard. But most of all, you’ve got to control your marble, and that’s, by far, the hardest part of all of it.
I like the analogy of the marble. Life is a series of taking two steps forward and three steps back at times. The issue comes down, the conundrum really, is do we continue walking forward even if it feels like we are in quicksand? As a person who is not necessarily the most patient person in the world, I have to remind myself that not only is it the destination I’m looking towards, but that the journey is just as important.
Do we continue to get our marbles in place for the next challenge over the bent and bubbled hardwood floor?
I say we do.
